Ivory snuff container
- Made:
- 1880-1930
Ivory snuff container, ovoid, with tubular neck coiled with brass wire, body decorated with triangular patterns suspended from brass bead chain, Zambezi, South Africa, 1880-1930
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A140330
- Measurements:
-
height 85 mm
diameter 30 mm
with lug: length 34 mm
chain: length 255 mm
- type:
- snuff containers
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust (Purchased from Stevens)
